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During the last 15 years or so several cities in Colombia such as Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, and Pasto have witnessed the appearance and dissemination of ritual practices associated with the consumption of yajé, a psychotropic, traditionally used b[...]![]()
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The intersectionality of gender, ethnicity/race, class, place of origin, sexual orientation and practices intervenes in the modern social production of the sex market and in the construction of sex workers' occupation. Based on the case of Afro-[...]![]()
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This paper explores the ways in which the State tried to incorporate to the nation’s political body both Indians and settlers in Northwest Amazonia. Based on official documents found in the archive of Inírida, Guainía, this article analyzes how [...]![]()
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Through detailed analysis of some (narco)corridos, along with the practice of taking them up and relating them to daily life, this essay explores how this musical and narrative genre interpellates its public as “el pueblo” (the people). Relying [...]![]()
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This article tries to assess the social impact of medicine on women´s bodies. it attempts to construct a picture of health care as close as possible to the social reality in which we live. We will see how women are differently affected by medica[...]![]()
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Review by Luis Guillermo Vasco Uribe Reseña escrita por Luis Guillermo Vasco Uribe![]()
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This report summarizes the results of a study of animal bones found during rescue excavations carried out in 1990 during the construction of the Nueva Fabrica urban development in the Tunjuelito valley in the south of Bogotá. The predominance of[...]![]()
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Urrea Giraldo, Fernando ; Zapata Ortega, Diego | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 1992-01-01This article phocuses on the analysis of nervous syndromes as some of the most common maladies treated by non traditional medicine. The study, carried out in a slum area of the city of Cali, analyses how people think about their health. A fact w[...]![]()
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This article explores the processes of ticuna ethnic identity formation as they intersect with the different national identities related to the Brasilian, Colombian and Peruvian nation-states, whose political borders meet in the Solimões/Upper A[...]![]()
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This article examines the differences between the virgin of popular brazilian devotion represented in this analysis by an apparition that has been occurring since 1987 in the interior of the state of Minas Gerais, and the Virgin used by the memb[...]![]()
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La crisis de los grandes modelos teóricos (marxismo, estructural-funcionalismo), el renovado interés por la labor de la escuela de Chicago, la importación de la etnometodología y el redescubrimiento del “sentido vivido de los actores” les devolv[...]![]()
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Review written by Carlos Vladimir Zambrano. Reseña escrita por Carlos Vladimir Zambrano.![]()
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This paper addresses the last seven years of the life of barefoot carmelite missionary, Jose Joaquin Arteaga, Director of the Apostolic Prefecture of Uraba, a zone between Antioquia and Choco, in Northwestern Colombia, from 1919 to 1926. It exam[...]![]()
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The text reviews the author’s extensive and productive career in the difficult craft of political ethnography. Through a reflective account of his own ethnographic experience, he highlights the importance and complexity of the craft; and therefo[...]![]()
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This article offers several interpretations on the thought of manuel quintín Lame structured around three main thematic axes: 1) humanity; 2) history; and 3) writing and mimesis. Lame is analyzed as an “un-appropriated and un-appropriatable Othe[...]![]()
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In addition to the expansion of intellectual property rights legislation and to the criminalization of uncertified seeds, the monopolization of seed markets is accompanied by narrative strategies. Through the analysis of three conflicts around g[...]![]()
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This article presents the results of an ethnographic study on tipping practices in Bogotá supermarkets. I show how the goods and services exchanges between customers and packagers, among which the tip circulates, are permeated by gift and capita[...]![]()
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In this article we propose to give an account of the affective, emotional and corporal dimensions that take place in situations of financial indebtedness. For this, we analyze the queries raised by private debtors to a legal advice blog and we e[...]![]()
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This article presents original ethnographic and pedagogical material that contributes —and questions— the official view of pedagogy for peace, an important dimension of the Peace Agreements in Colombia. Through a series of pedagogical workshops [...]![]()
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From the intersection of two visions about the nature of the music production in Colombia, this article proposes a way to understand the logic of the national music field. This relational analytic construction enables the description of the soci[...]![]()
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This article discusses the link between pollution and dispossession related to commercial rice cultivation in the Mojana, Colombian Caribbean. Due to its environmental richness and agricultural productivity, this region has been posited as a foo[...]![]()
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For some years the mining and mineral trade in Colombia have undergone a slow process of formalization by the State. In the case of emeralds, this process has been accompanied by the consolidation of Grupo Muzo, the US company responsible for ex[...]![]()
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Castrillón Vallejo, Juan Carlos | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia - ICANH | 2012-12-31This paper discusses how religion through music is inscribed in different ways on people’s practices and specific speeches. First, it suggests an argument that explores sound thinking and its strategies related to the production of subjectivitie[...]